Technical improvement in permanent seed implantation: A two-stage brachytherapy system. Description and comparison with current technique

Brachytherapy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 34-40

  Grimm, Peter D ^a   Blasko, John C ^a   Sylvester, John E ^a,b   Heaney, Charles ^a   Gasparich, James ^a   Quackenbush, Jeffrey ^a   Gottesman, Jim ^a   Downey, Jim ^a   Grier, Doug ^a   Roddy, Tim ^a   Nellans, Roger ^a   Sood, Narender ^a   Wahl, David ^a  

^a Seattle Prostate Institute   (United States)

^b Puget Sound Tumor Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Prostate Cancer; Technique; Two stage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEEDLE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COHORT STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; NEEDLES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 11144356725     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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